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From: Faure, Marin (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 17:18:44 EDT
>Further, I think it is the very perfect boat for me, and probably for
just about everybody else as well.
I think the rest of your post makes excellent points about the positive
points of cats, and you were honest about some of the negatives as well,
which is commendable (and rare). But the last phrase in the above
statement above is one that I don't agree with at all. The fact you've
found the PDQ to be the perfect boat for you has no bearing whatsoever
on what is the perfect boat for me or anyone else.
Speaking STRICTLY for myself, I find catamarans, both sail and power but
particularly power, to be the ugliest things on the water. Every one of
them-- wide-stance, narrow-stance, any-stance. I don't care what their
benefits are, I have no interest in owning or operating what TO ME is a
grotesque parody of a boat. I think they're hideous and for that reason
alone would never buy one because, as I said in a previous post, what
appeals to me in the aesthetics of a boat's design is a significant
reason that I like boating and enjoy running a boat.
While I would no doubt acknowledge many if not all of the positive
points you made about cats if I were to take one out myself in our
waters, this would not change the fact that I think they're ugly, and I
don't want to own what I perceive is an ugly boat. All the wonderful
seakeeping and space and efficiency benefits of any design are not going
to change my mind if I fundamentally don't like the design.
That said, my own feelings about what boats should and should not look
like has no bearing whatsoever on what anyone else on or off this list
should feel is a good boat design. So I would not presume to suggest
that a Grand Banks, Sea Ray, Nordhavn, Nordic Tug, PDQ power cat, New
England lobsterboat, converted purse seiner, or any other type of boat
is probably the perfect boat for everybody else.
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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington
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